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Prison Break is an American action/serial drama television series that premiered on the Fox Broadcasting Company on August 29, 2005. The story revolves around a man who was sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit and his brother's elaborate plan to help him escape his death sentence. Created by Paul Scheuring, the show is produced by Adelstein-Parouse Productions in association with Original Television and 20th Century Fox Television. The current executive producers are Scheuring, Matt Olmstead, Kevin Hooks, Marty Adelstein, Dawn Parouse, Neal Moritz, and Brett Ratner. Its theme music is composed by Ramin Djawadi, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2006.

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In 1982, each state in the United States combined to spend $15 billion on the country's prison system. Now, states spend triple that amount on average, and have for years due to prison populations that have shot up from Virginia to Alaska. As Preside...

The final installment of "Serial," a cult-favorite podcast reinvestigating a 15-year-old murder case, will begin just like every other episode with the names of two companies: First a partially mispronounced plug for the show's sponsor, then an unpai...

A judge has granted a request from WikiLeaks' most famous informant, the soldier formerly known as Bradley Edward Manning, to have her name formally changed to Chelsea Elizabeth Manning. The Leavenworth County District Judge David King allowed the na...

WikiLeaks' most famous whistleblower, the army private formerly known as Bradley Manning, has taken the first step toward officially becoming recognized as a female. Manning requested a Kansas court to change her name to Chelsea and will also request...

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Syrian rebels have seized the Aleppo central prison, freeing hundreds of prisoners on Thursday, according to multiple news reports and rebel sources. The rebels took control of 80% of the estimated 4,000-person Assad-run prison complex, said Rami Abd...

Robert Vick seriously picked the wrong week to escape from jail. Vick, 42, broke out of a minimum security prison in Lexington, Kentucky, only to find himself on the lam with only prison-issued khaki pants, a shirt and a jacket in the middle of a Pol...

After nine months in a Ohio juvenile detention facility, Ma'lik Richmond, one of two Steubenville teens found "delinquent" of raping a 16-year-old girl in August 2012, has been released. He was initially sentenced to one year. In a statement released...

In the '90s, when cellphones were starting to become popular, it seemed as though manufacturers raced to make mobile phones smaller and smaller. Then came smartphones and big screens. But a market for tiny cell phones still exists: in prison. UK auth...

The attorney for Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning (formerly known as Bradley Manning) said Thursday that his client wants to undergo sexual reassignment therapy to live as a woman while serving her 35-year sentence for leaking classified documents about U.S...

Infamous hacker and Internet troll Andrew Auernheimer, better known as Weev, said he wasn't afraid of going to prison. But he is now being held in "administrative segregation," which is a euphemism for solitary confinment. His lawyer and supporters c...

The classic definition of a hacker is somebody who uses their ingenuity to tinker and modify things to make them do what they were not designed to do. In other words, someone who gets around hurdles with smart "hacks." With that in mind, it shouldn't...

When you think about prisoners whiling away their time behind bars, it's common to imagine inmates out in "the yard" lifting weights, playing ball or smuggling contraband. But in the age of social media, one notable inmate is using Twitter to documen...

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